Grip
Grip
Grip builds an AI-powered platform for managing in-person, virtual, and hybrid business events. Its tools help organizers connect attendees through matchmaking and meeting scheduling, capture leads, tailor participant experiences, and manage exhibitor and sponsorship activity. Grip’s event software also supports integrations and security features for event operations. The company works across SaaS, B2B, and event management.

Principal DevOps Software Engineer

Lead engineering for Grip’s AI-powered event platform, guiding AWS infrastructure and DevOps practices. Improve delivery, reliability, observability, security, and legacy systems.

Description

  • Own features through delivery using agile methods.
  • Ship features with feature flags, tests, and observability.
  • Refine plans with the product team and surface risks and opportunities.
  • Shape squad technical direction, architecture, code quality, and engineering practices.
  • Partner with platform and engineering operations leaders on AWS services including EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, and S3.
  • Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery, and automated rollback processes.
  • Align platform practices across engineering squads.
  • Strengthen reliability monitoring and accelerate incident detection and resolution.
  • Expand observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry.
  • Improve platform security through vulnerability scanning, penetration test coordination, and standards enforcement.
  • Help define cross-platform architecture, shared libraries, and internal tooling.
  • Modernise legacy systems through gradual migration and consolidation while maintaining delivery.
  • Mentor engineers across squads and guide platform-wide technical direction.

Requirements

  • Experience spanning software engineering and DevOps.
  • Experience working across the technology stack.
  • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js/Express, Python, Lambda, FastAPI, Angular, and React Native.
  • Experience with DocumentDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
  • Experience with Jest and Cypress.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry.
  • Experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with progressive delivery and automated rollback workflows.
  • Experience with vulnerability scanning and coordinating penetration tests.
  • Experience contributing to architectural standards, shared libraries, and internal tooling.
  • Experience modernising legacy systems through migration and consolidation.
  • A product-focused approach to principal-level individual contributor work.
  • Ability to deliver features with security and performance in mind.
  • Ability to prepare technical proposals, specifications, test reports, and release plans.

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture with an optional London Bridge office.
  • Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.
  • 25 days of annual holiday.
  • Sabbatical leave opportunities.
  • Training and professional development budget.
  • Group life insurance.
  • Company health plan.
  • Opportunity to influence technical direction across the platform.
  • Opportunities to mentor across squads.
  • Clear progression framework.
  • Quarterly performance reviews.

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